People are still not playing the low tiers.

Well considering skull merchant is still the worst killer in the game.

I actually did see a skull merchant, and they slayed ^^

Well people still bring Med Kits althrough many people claimed they are dead after the self healing nerf.

Someone who was sweaty all his DBD carriere won´t swap instant to a new Killer.

My personal hope is the following.

You are a OTP Nurse main. But from time to time it gets boring. So you pick up something new like Ghostface.

Now there are two outcomes:

1. You have a fighting chance and you see you don´t need an S+++ tier killer to win a game
2. You get completly destoryed, not by your lack of skill but by the game itself telling you "Yeah buddy this killer sucks" and you go back to nurse.

Personally the few times i play Killer i only play the weaker once, since I am unable to do flicks and I am dogshit without a crosshair.

Sweaty people will always play sweaty and maybe you are much higher in your MMR than you think.

I main Trapper (naughty bear), Legion and Ghostface with others I use a fair amount like Clown, Trickster, Huntress, Deathslinger and Chucky.

In my opinion these killers are more enjoyable to play if you're like me and couldn't care less about winning and having fun instead.

(On a side note lightborn brings so much joy to my games and never leave home without it)

I occasionally use other a lot of other killers for the odd game or killer master challenges but never use Nurse, Blight or Ghoul. Don't have either the time or inclination to learn them as they just don't appeal to me.

Xeno in particular sucks on console so never play it and the nerfs to Knight destroyed a fun and original killer.

As far as survivors go I constantly see Meg , Feng and Lara Croft so some variety would be nice there too.

• I'm offering my own personal experience, which may not represent the actual state of the game. Since the new update, I've played roughly 25 matches, and the killers I've faced are always the same (Blight, Kaneki, Huntress, Wesker, Oni, Billy). I've faced a Skull Merchant twice (I imagine they were testing the recent changes), an Artist twice (very unusual to encounter her once, imagine twice!), a Bubba and a Nurse. I've never seen a Trapper, Ghostface, Pig, or any of the "m1" killers in general.

It's pretty obvious that the people saying they just see ghoul/blight/nurse all the time are lying.

Legion still sees a fair amount of play. Also, strength never correlated much with popularity. That applies to DBD but also PvP games in general. People play what they enjoy playing, period. Twins, Singu, Krasue are top tier killers that you encounter once in a blue moon because not many people vibe well with them, that's all. A B tier Blight would still remain among the most played killers in the game.

I completely agree. People play with the killers they love. Any change in the game (positive or negative) can happen... players will always use Blight and Huntress and very rarely Trapper or Twins.

Could potentially be your mmr. If it's high you're gonna see a lot more of the top tier killers since the bad killers generally aren't reaching there. Also rng is rng, sometimes we just get random odds of this or that, might just need a larger sample size.

I try to play Killer with the same attitude and main a lot of same Killers. The only "strong" Killer that I play is Billy but I'm not even good with him. Most of the time I'm just trying to drift around the map or going for curves (but 50% time bumping into rocks and trees instead).

I wish BHVR would bring back those "play one trial as such and such" for a reward of BP or Rift Fragments. It would do a lot to encourage more variety in trials. I played a Ghoul game the other day and got completely dunked on, with no hooks and the obligatory bags at the exit gate for absolutely no reason (playing Ghoul is apparently reason enough). A little extra something might convince some to play Killers they're not so confident or skilled with if there's some reward to lessen the sting of losing a bit.

if i get given a bit of moldy pizza and send it back, i still wouldn't eat it if they removed the cheese

Tbh I have seen far more twins players than hags which is interesting and Im starting to believe hag is the least picked killer in the game (twins have more action gameplay with more chase than just being like orbweaver that is just keep repearing and setting his net).

The lower tier killers where sadly struggling long before there was loads of pallets on the maps.

For about 2 years the variety of killers has got lower an lower as most of the killers just can't keep up with people who actually do gens. The pallet issues are just one issue that lower killers faced. Big maps, gen speeds, nerfed gen defence, an array of many survivor second chance perks, no fast map traversal, the survivor hud has made even solos become vastly more efficient.

It might honestly just be SBMM doing it's thing. After all the s tier killers will still win more clearly and consistently than pig, trapper etc. So if you are just ranked high enough as survivors those killers are naturally what you get.

Personally im a mid/low tier surv and I've seen a lot of variety in my recent games and even a few skull merchants. But that might just be me